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Getting around town

Posted on April 23, 2012 | 25 comments

Sitting in the traffic today and then driving around waiting for a park, I suddenly remembered this clip I had seen some where and wondered why we don’t use cycle skates any more. Click here for the link

These were apparently all the rage in the 1920s and it was thought they would become the wave of the future. These were the ancestors of inline roller skates and think how easy it would be to park them. Just pick them up and go – no parking tickets, no limit on the time one can be away. Sounds a little like heaven.

But I guess they have gone the way of the Penny farthing and the unicycle.

And still on the subject of parking. A few weeks ago I met some friends for coffee and parked my car outside the restaurant. I duly paid the parking fee and all was well. It was only the other day when clearing papers out of my purse that I looked at the ticket –

Look at the date. Does this mean I have free parking in Oriental Parade until 1.14pm on March 30 2021? I wonder how many others have this free parking.

And here is a shot from the other day – Andy waiting patiently in the car for Lotte and me to go for a walk. It wouldn’t stop raining so the walk was off, but Andy seemed to enjoy just sitting in the car watching the world go by.